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The Living Waters Podcast

Ep. 313 - The Beauty of Adoption—Spiritual and Physical

The Living Waters Podcast

Living Waters

Prolife, Religion, Creation, Evangelism, Salvation, Jesus, Christianity, Faith, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Gospel, Apologetics, Theology, Witnessing

52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Adoption is one of the most profound aspects of salvation, yet it's often under-discussed. Ray, E.Z., and Mark talk about how adoption into God’s family is the highest privilege the gospel offers, revealing a beautiful truth about Christians being chosen and loved by God.b For many, spiritual adoption seems unfamiliar or even confusing. Scripture clarifies that only those who are in Christ are truly His children. When witnessing, we can gently and truthfully share this distinction, echoing Je...

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John Wesley, he said, though we are strangers to the world and strangers to ourselves, we are no

0:07.3

longer strangers to God. We are His. That's what happens. When you become a Christian, you get

0:13.2

adopted into God's family, why not you just pause long enough to think through that, to meditate

0:18.7

what Christ did for us, and now we reach out to

0:22.4

those around us. You may not have the ability to adopt somebody into your family, but you can

0:27.4

adopt them through prayer. You can say, I'm committed to pray for this individual. I remember saying

0:32.5

this to an individual one time that I had met. I just met him. He's a bass player for a well-known

0:37.3

band. I said,

0:38.2

listen, I'm committed to pray for you every day for at least a year. And he was so taken back

0:44.2

that I was willing to do that. And I would send him a text regularly, and he would send me a text.

0:48.6

Hey, this is what I need prayer for. Be there for someone. You can't adopt them, but you can be there for someone. You can't adopt them, but you can be there for them,

0:55.1

and you can adopt them through prayer

0:56.3

and just lift them up before God.

1:04.1

Ray Comfort, did you or did you not

1:08.7

recently contaminate my office with a biohazard substance?

1:14.7

What are you talking about?

1:16.7

Blood.

1:17.5

Oh, that's the life of the flesh that's in the blood.

1:20.8

Biohazard chemical that was going to destroy my office.

1:25.1

I couldn't believe it when I saw it.

1:27.1

Well, I could have actually.

1:28.5

It was just a little pint or two. That's all. I cut my leg and I didn't realize, but I put my

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